Writing

I once asked a famous celebrity chef how he made his pasta taste so good. He answered “Butter. Lots of it.” When we land in Paris, jet lagged and cranky, we head right to our favorite street cafe and order [...]  Read more

This week is CS Education Week . There are CS Education week events all around the world, mostly in schools where students will do an hour of coding. In NYC, where I do most of my CS Education work, there [...]  Read more

One of the things I am most focused on with the new AVC.com, which is coming soon, is a better search experience. I have been impressed by how much we were able to improve the search on the new USV.com [...]  Read more

A number of elected officials tweeted “I told you so” when the news came out at the end of last week that Amazon had taken space in Hudson Yards and will move 1500 jobs there soon. While the question of [...]  Read more

The word “growth” has become one of the focal points of the climate crisis debate. There are those who are worried that pricing carbon will slow down economic growth. And there are those who believe that the only way we [...]  Read more

I backed this film project this morning and am sharing it with all of you. Read more

Last week Algorand launched the ability for developers to write programs on Algorand that manage the logic of Algorand wallets and assets. I’ve been tracking this Algorand feature for a while and was excited to finally get to test it [...]  Read more

People who want to fight the climate crisis tend to agree on a lot of things, but nuclear power turns out to be a highly divisive issue. In this series of posts I will use nuclear power to refer to [...]  Read more

Crunchbase has a story up today explaining that Series A and Series B rounds make up between 25% and 35% of all $100mm+ “supergiant” rounds every year . That’s interesting but what would be more interesting is to compare the [...]  Read more